If you have a few minutes, you need to read two articles. The first article is from the San Francisco Chronicle and http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/14/SHEEHAN.TMP it talks about Cindy Sheehan. The article gives background information on Cindy Sheehan and her vigil outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas vacation spot. Here is the section I want to highlight:
But Bill Whalen, a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, a former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush's 1992 re-election campaign and a longtime GOP consultant, said she also must remain focused.
"Instead of asking, 'Why did my son die?' which Bush can answer, she should be asking, 'How much longer will other sons die?' "
HOW MUCH LONGER WILL OTHER SONS DIE?
Frank Rich has a great op-ed piece in the NY Times. The title of the piece is called SOMEONE TELL THE PRESIDENT THE WAR IS OVER. He really makes some great points about how the American people do not support the war.
"These are the tea leaves that all Republicans, not just Chuck Hagel, are reading now. Newt Gingrich called the Hackett near-victory "a wake-up call." The resolutely pro-war New York Post editorial page begged Mr. Bush (to no avail) to "show some leadership" by showing up in Ohio to salute the fallen and their families. A Bush loyalist, Senator George Allen of Virginia, instructed the president to meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother camping out in Crawford, as "a matter of courtesy and decency." Or, to translate his Washingtonese, as a matter of politics. Only someone as adrift from reality as Mr. Bush would need to be told that a vacationing president can't win a standoff with a grief-stricken parent commandeering TV cameras and the blogosphere 24/7."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14rich.html
